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The Hall of Raphael frescoes where the Pope lives at the Vatican is getting a much-needed restoration with the help of lasers
After 500 years of wear and tear, the Vatican’s grand corridor of Raphael frescoes is about to be cleaned and restored. The ...
Plenty of faces keep you company in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition “Raphael: Sublime Poetry”—saints and sinners, popes and poets, ladies in posh frocks or nothing at all—but the most ...
"Raphael was a very amorous man who was fond of women," Vasari wrote. Raphael, Self portrait (1506-1508). Firenze, Gallerie degli Uffizi, Galleria delle Statue e delle Pitture. Gabinetto fotografico ...
In a rare reunion, seven of Raphael’s Madonnas are coming together under one roof at Berlin’s Gemäldegalerie, which kicks of a series of shows next year dedicated to the Italian Renaissance master on ...
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On Sept. 29, the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of the three Archangels who have been venerated throughout the history of the Church: These archangels, all of whom play cameo roles in the ...
The Renaissance star has always been held up as a model of formal perfection but this outstanding show reveals the artist’s warmth and tenderness too A woman is running towards us, mouth open in a ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City is holding what it describes as the first comprehensive exhibition devoted to Renaissance painter Raffaello di Giovanni Santi (better known as Raphael) ...
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